July Pay Confusion & What You Deserve | Build Your Enrollment this Weekend

July Pay Confusion–Fighting for What You & Your Students Deserve

July pay rates were confusing for faculty who have summer assignments. The District restored FT base pay to the correct rates, but they paid all summer assignments–PT assignments and FT overload–at the concessionary rate.

The District argues it is legitimate to pay July 2022 at the lower rate, because they paid July 2021 at the higher rate. In short, they assert that the one-year concessionary agreement ran July 2021-June 2022 for FT base pay, but August 2021-July 2022 for PT pay and FT overload. The concessionary agreement clearly states that it is “For academic year 2021/2022,” which ends on June 30. (Step increases should have happened on schedule July 1 in both years.)

Your bargaining team is formulating a response to this misapplication of our signed agreement.

To make this very clear: All faculty should be receiving higher pay, and to get it, faculty should expect to fight for that as a collective. Our power is in our unity–that’s how we fight administrators who want to degrade our working conditions and college. Chancellor Martin has refused to use additional revenue received (including a now $15 million COLA from the State) to increase our salaries. Additionally, his current budget assumes NO RAISES for faculty through 2027. For confirmation, see the second line at the bottom of his recent budget under ‘Assumptions.’ All of this is happening while Chancellor Martin continues to cut classes and programs your students & communities need. This is wholly unacceptable, and we must continue to join together to fight it.

AFT 2121 Endorses Vick Chung for Board of Trustees and Supervisor Gordon Mar in his District 4 Re-Election Campaign

The COPE vote concluded and AFT 2121 has endorsed Gordon Mar in his campaign for re-election as District 4 supervisor and Vick Chung for Board of Trustees, following the withdrawal of our previously endorsed candidate, Anabel Ibanez, from the race.

AFT’s endorsed candidates for college board, Susan Solomon, Anita Martinez, and Vick Chung, were also unanimously endorsed by the San Francisco Labor Council on Monday, August 8th! We will be sharing updates about how to support and get involved with their campaigns, but since some of you have asked, here are links for contributing to Susan Solomon’s campaign and to Anita Martinez’ campaign online or via check. Information about contributing to Vick Chung’s campaign will be shared in a future blast.

Reminder! Sign Up to Distribute Beautiful City College Enrollment Posters & Pick Up Your Own this Weekend

Your union has launched #CCSFintheCity, an ongoing art project and enrollment campaign designed to bring new opportunities to your city, build CCSF’s enrollment, and remind San Franciscans of the jewel of public higher education that is City College.

Sign up for an enrollment campaign meet-up this weekend, get your free copies of this beautiful poster, and then join CCSF staff, faculty, students, & community in distributing posters to the people of San Francisco. RSVP now (https://bit.ly/EnrollCCSF):

Sat, Aug 13, 10am-12pm at the Bayview Farmers’ Market (Yosemite & Keith St)

Sun, Aug 14, 1pm-4pm at the Balboa Theater (37th & Balboa)